Teaching Self-Acceptance

Classroom Activity Inspired by I Don’t Want to Be a Frog

by Alexie Basil

Accepting and loving ourselves isn’t always easy. It’s especially true for young children who are still forming their identities.

In this video, kindergarten teacher Kaitlyn Kazalunas explains whyI Don’t Want to Be a Frogis useful for teaching self-acceptance, and she shares the creative classroom activity she uses with her students.

The activity prompts students to draw and describe themselves. Here are some examples by the students in Kaitlyn’s class!

Want to try Kaitlyn’s activity in your own classroom? Just download the worksheet below! We’d love to see what your students come up with, so please share their work on social media using the tag #ScholasticBookClubs.

A Note from Judy

For more than 80 years,The Story of Ferdinand has encouraged readers around the world to stop and smell the flowers—and now, our blog team is thrilled to share
it with your students as this week’s Dollar Deal.

To celebrate, we take a deep dive into the book’s history, offer a class activity for your students to create their own “happy places,” challenge your class to compete in
a 60-second storytelling
face-off with the Book Boys, and applaud one classroom’s theatrical interpretation of
the story.

We hope Ferdinand finds
a place on your classroom shelves and in your
students’ hearts.

Judy Newman

Reader in ChiefScholastic Book Clubs

DOLLAR DEAL!

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be a teacher—or a parent
with a child connected
to a teacher—with aScholastic Book Clubs account (sign in or create an account here).
If you need help, please call
1-800-SCHOLASTIC
(1-800-724-6527).

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pair with a brand-new book!
Let’s help give at-risk
children a better good night. Your class can help!